4 weeks of Type and Yoga

I’ve been meaning to re-establish a daily yoga practice. I also want to keep growing as an animator and motion designer. Why not combine the two, I thought?

For the next four weeks – starting October 16 – I will be doing yoga and animating type. Almost every day. Not necessarily at the same time.

I believe one practice will support the other one. Yoga offers wonderful “maintenance techniques” for that body of ours that we so need for ensuring a long creative life.

It also offers ways of dealing with creatives’ ultimate enemies – Perfectionism and Resistance. (Then there is that infamous gap but I think it is very much linked with Perfectionism).

Project goal: to settle focused and comfortable in my body and in AfterEffects, animating type.

To support the process and avoid the known traps, I’ve sketched a few guidelines. Sort of like the ones yoga teachers provide for their students.

Yoga and Type can intercept but don’t have to.

Don’t let perfectionism stand in the way of creation

… but don’t rush to produce either.

Take the time for reflection after every piece.

Share the work with others.

The brief account of each day’s practice and the resources I used will be published here as well as on my Instagram account.

Weekly scheduleincludes a proper stretch – creation of 2-3 smaller and 1 larger project – but also time for looking inside other people’s project files as well as inside myself and a whole day of PLAY.

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